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Sports| Kochi Blue Spikers defeated ChennaiSpartan 3-2 (12-15, 10-15, 15-11, 15-13, 15-10) on Monday in the playoff round of Rupay Pro Volleyball League. This is the second team to enter the playoffs of this league. PrabagaranS declared as the star of the match. He achieved 12 points for Kochi. RudiWiehoff, who took 20 points in this match, could not win his team.

Chennai had taken 4-2 lead in the first set. Kochi came back here and succeeds in making score equal. Chennai, however, went ahead with an 8-6 lead at the first time out. After the time out, Chennai pressurized and took 13-8 lead. Kochi narrowed the gap of points from here but Chennai managed to win the first set 15-12.

With the strong attack and defense in the second set, Chennai continued their dominance. Kochi was barely able to match her here. Chennai took the lead of 8-5 ahead of time. After returning from the time-out, they scored 12-7 and then took the set to 15-10.

In the third set, both the teams played the equalizer and the score was 4-4 at a time. The mistakes of Sorokins and Naveen Raj gave Kochi a chance to take the lead. In the time out they lead with the difference of four points. Kochi returned here and won the set from 15-11.

In the fourth set, Kochi made a 3-0 lead at the time but Chennai returned to a one-time score of 5-5. After this, both the teams scored a score of 7-7. Kochi has gained the edge here. However, Chennai managed to get a Super Point at the score of 7-9, and in the same fashion Kochi also got the Super Point. The team of Kochi was returning very interestingly and under this, they made it to the set 15-13 and made the match interesting.

The fifth set was a lot of fork, but both teams made many big mistakes in this set. After this Kochi team did not look back and won the match by winning the match 3-2 to make it 15-10. On Tuesday, the U Mumba Volley Team will face Black Hawks Hyderabad.